Question of the Day

Could MadMen get any better?

I just watched episode 11 of 13 of this current third season. And now I have to wait another week to see what happens next. It's great writing, acting, art direction, the works. I can't wait!

Four Happy Ingredients

Any guesses as to what I'm up to?

Foods You Either Love... or Hate (Question of the Day)

I've just come up with:

anchovies
cilantro / coriander
Marmite

Can anyone think of any more? I mean food that universally divide people.

Question of the Day: Bond Casting

Well, I've given this some thought. What part would suit me the best in a Bond movie?

Well, to start with, I don't think I'd be a good Bond girl. I'd probably make too many suggestions about diffusing the explosive device, none of them educated, but quite opinionated. And whatever Bond I would be with would find that annoying.

I like my comforts too much to do a lot of squid-wrestling and I wouldn't want to be the kept chippy of some of those nasty old Bond villains. I'm not athletic and you have to be willing to be tossed around in a rather violent way and to be dicing with death every five minutes - exhausting to think about.

I'm not an "M" in training as I'm way too soft hearted. I couldn't be Miss Moneypenny, pining endlessly for Bond. No thank you.

I considered being a kind of cohort of one of the evil guys, but not really my line either, I'm too fair and I'd be seeing the good guy's point of view.

Then I thought, what about one of those scientists in the background, with the clipboard and the blueprints for the explosive device? I could wear a nifty white coat and amusingly unattractive thickly framed glasses that would do nothing to detract from my background-scenery-sort of ravishability.

But then I came to the conclusion that the IDEAL role for me in a Bond movie would be that voice that comes in towards the end. The female voice that is broadcast loudly all over the secret lair as the imminent explosion or detonation is counted down.

"Estimated time to detonation sequence... fifteen minutes and counting..."

YES! I could just call it in. I could call in the part from my bed, eating bon bons, yawning (no-one could see), but I could just do the voice over - brilliant!

"Estimate time to detonation sequence.... twelve minutes and counting...."

So.... the question of the day is... what part would YOU best be suited for?

Question of the Day and Mere Christianity

Well, my post about the top ten actors I would like to be stranded on a desert island with got the most number of comments. So... here's another question:

What character, real or fictitious, historical or contemporary would you most like to be stranded on a desert island with?

I'll ponder that one today.

Also, I'm now in a one-off, two-person book group with Captain Luke. We're reading C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. Neither of us have read it before. Captain Luke is a believer, I am deeply confused. This should be interesting. The upside is this is the sort of friendship where we can disagree deeply on certain matters and still be great friends.

Finally a Fiction Post! And the Fun Question of the Day

I finally finished The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. I don't think I've ever read anything so slowly. So last night I picked up A Midsummer Night's Dream, and I'm still on the introduction, but it's pretty dense. I'm re-reading it as I'm writing something of my own and it's inspired by this play. In fact, the introduction has given me some fresh insights already that I intend to incorporate into my own story.

We played a game at a party a few years ago: if you could meet anyone in history or fiction to sit down and have dinner with - who would it be? For me it's still Shakespeare. Although Jesus would be nice too. Maybe we should expand the dinner party to four people: you and three others. Okay, so here's the question of the day: Who would be at your dinner for four (you are one of them) and then... if you could only have one guest, who would it be?